How to Install and Uninstall libsodium-dev Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: February 02,2025

1. Install "libsodium-dev" package

Please follow the instructions below to install libsodium-dev on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libsodium-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libsodium-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall libsodium-dev on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libsodium-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libsodium-dev package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: libsodium-dev
Source: libsodium
Version: 1.0.18-1
Installed-Size: 802
Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libsodium23 (= 1.0.18-1)
Description: Network communication, cryptography and signaturing library - headers
Description-md5: cae8e20dbbff5c7b1b3bf306d7ea03fa
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://www.libsodium.org/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libs/libsodium/libsodium-dev_1.0.18-1_amd64.deb
Size: 179608
MD5sum: aa097dab59f3ca9776bd1bc9505cf834
SHA256: a3cc98bda5ec9e3a751ee4dfd1f6881eb2a01339e8046df2eef0376ab71d87c6